Staff Software Engineer - Platform App Services

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and architect for our backend systems. You will be responsible for defining the technical vision of our platform, mentoring senior engineers, and solving complex challenges related to scalability and reliability. Your role is to be a force multiplier, ensuring that our engineering practices and architectures enable teams to deliver high-quality software at a global scale.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Strategy: Define and drive the long-term technical roadmap for Golang-based backend services, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives and platform initiatives.

• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and evolution of Postgres-backed distributed systems, prioritizing high performance, multi-region reliability, and complex data workflows (CDC).

• Complexity Reduction: Identify systemic redundancies across teams; lead efforts to consolidate tools and services to simplify the developer experience and reduce organizational complexity.

• Operational Excellence: Set the standard for observability and operational health. You will influence the strategy for platform availability and lead initiatives to improve system resilience.

• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security leadership to negotiate technical trade-offs and ensure the platform scales efficiently.